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Netflix's CEO offered to resign from Facebook's board in 2016, citing his fellow board member Peter Thiel's support of Donald Trump:
Netflix CEO Reed Hastings — who called his fellow board member Thiel's support of Trump "catastrophically bad judgment" in an email leaked to the Times — also offered to resign over his disagreement with Thiel, according to a Wall Street Journal report published Thursday. Sources told WSJ that Facebook CEO Zuckerberg declined Hastings' offer to resign. Facebook declined to comment on the matter to Business Insider.
Now, Thiel may resign from Facebook's board instead in the midst of packing up and leaving the Bay area:
The founder of PayPal and a prominent investor in Silicon Valley, Thiel is reportedly moving his investment firms Thiel Capital and Thiel Foundation out of the Bay Area and into Los Angeles this year, according to WSJ.
In L.A., Thiel is also reportedly planning to build "a right-leaning media outlet to foster discussion and community around conservative topics." Thiel bankrolled the lawsuits that eventually forced Gawker Media into bankruptcy, and has been trying to buy Gawker's now-defunct flagship site.
Although Thiel has called Silicon Valley a "one-party state", in the 2016 Presidential election, Hillary Clinton beat President Trump 72 percent to 22 percent in Los Angeles County.
The Guardian also has an article about Thiel's involvement in New Zealand.
Also at Ars Technica, The Mercury News, LA Times, and Vanity Fair.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 17 2018, @08:07AM (2 children)
In the 1912 presidential election, (Socialist!) Eugene Debs [google.com] got 6 percent of the popular vote.
Ross Perot got 19 percent of the popular vote in 1992.
...and with your kind of attitude, Abraham Lincoln of the nascent Republican Party[1] never would have been elected in 1860.
[1] That's right. There was a time when the Republicans were just another bunch of wannabes.
Find a party that stands for what you stand for[2] [googleusercontent.com] (orig) [smirkingchimp.com] and get involved.
[2] That's the bunch behind the World Socialist Web Site.
Very pro-family, very pro-consumer, and VERY pro-worker.
If there's not a party that's exactly what you want, you could find the one that's nearest to the mark and get inside it and make it better.
(4-time presidential candidate Ralph Nader says a dedicated 1 percent getting involved is all it takes to effect change.)
...and hey, after the Dumbocrats stabbed Bernie Sanders[3] in the back repeatedly, Jill Stein offered him the top spot on the Green Party ticket.
(You never know how the winds might shift.)
[3] Currently the most popular politician in the country.
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 2) by bzipitidoo on Saturday February 17 2018, @05:16PM (1 child)
You're preaching to the choir, brother. I'm not the one who needs convincing to shake things up. My fellow citizens are. The ones who voted for Trump as a protest vote got more and worse than they bargained for. Sure wish they'd voted differently. Maybe next time they will.
I live in a very red state. My first priority is whoever isn't even worse than the Republican. Most often that's the Democrat. But the Republicans have such a strong grip that it may as well be a one party state. It's so bad that there isn't always a Democratic opponent in every race. Not much point when it's unwinnable. I've voted for the Greens. And I've even voted for the Libertarians though I first want to know that the individual candidate isn't worse than the Republican. If there's a choice between Democrat and Green, then it's a tough call. If it seems that the Democrat has a chance of winning, that's where I'll vote. If not, I'll vote for the Green. We have a choice of 4 (!) parties if we want to vote straight ticket: Republican, Democrat, Libertarian, and Green. The Greens achieved that status a decade or 2 ago, and it's not hard to figure out why. The Republicans helped them, to split the Democratic vote.
The Pirate Party is my first choice. It's not just copyright reform, it's also their platform of transparency and cleaning up the corruption. I have yet to see a Pirate Party candidate on any ballot. Currently, the Pirate Party in the US merely endorses other parties, doesn't run their own candidates.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 17 2018, @09:53PM
Yeah. Hey, who knows?
Maybe a Soylentil has read our blurbs and has been convinced to investigate -every- name on the ballot rather than just sticking with the lesser of 2 evils among the Big 2.
...maybe even going with the "get inside" notion.
Maybe someone will find this via a search engine and be convinced.
(Yeah, a stretch.)
Take the opportunities to proselytize as they come.
You never know.
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]